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Xtext definition and instance in same grammar [message #1303442] Sat, 19 April 2014 08:37 Go to next message
Christophe Bouhier is currently offline Christophe BouhierFriend
Messages: 937
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Hi,

I have this grammar which has definition of types and instance of them
in the same grammar.


This would be the type definition or Macro in this case:

*********

OBJECT-IDENTITY MACRO ::=
BEGIN
TYPE NOTATION ::=
"STATUS" Status
"DESCRIPTION" Text

VALUE NOTATION ::=
value(VALUE OBJECT IDENTIFIER)

Status ::=
"current"
| "deprecated"
| "obsolete"

ReferPart ::=
"REFERENCE" Text
| empty

-- a character string as defined in section 3.1.1
Text ::= value(IA5String)
END

*********

....and further down an instanceof of it. How do I deal with this?
I can reference the [MACRO] of course, but how does the parser know the
possible attributes and values for the Macro type? Do I need parser
rules in code?


******************

zeroDotZero OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A value used for null identifiers."
::= { 0 0 }

**********************

Thanks ! Christophe
Re: Xtext definition and instance in same grammar [message #1303630 is a reply to message #1303442] Sat, 19 April 2014 11:05 Go to previous message
Christian Dietrich is currently offline Christian DietrichFriend
Messages: 14665
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Hi,

i cant follow the "domain specific" part of your DSL (what is a macro, what can it do, and where are the attributes and values)
so let us simplify

Model:
	entities+=Entity
	instances+=Instance
;

Entity:
	"entity" name=ID "{"
		attributes+=Attribute*
	"}"
;

Attribute:
	name=ID ":" type=Type 
;

enum Type :
	string | int | Boolean
;

Instance:
	"instance" name=ID ":" type=[Entity] "{"
		attributeInstances+=AttributeInstance*
	"}"
;

AttributeInstance:
	attribute=[Attribute] "=" value=Literal //or expression 
;

Literal:
	IntLiteral | StringLiteral | BooleanLiteral
;

IntLiteral:
	value=INT
;

StringLiteral:
	value=STRING
;

BooleanLiteral:
	{BooleanLiteral}"false" |(value?="true")
;


with scoping, a type system and a bunch of checks this should work with your case too (if i understood it correct)


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